2 LAUSD Officials Demoted, Principal Leaves over Handling of Sex-Abuse Complaints David Kooper, another subject of the inquiry, has been reinstated as principal of Gulf Avenue Elementary. In 2009, Kooper was chief of staff to South Bay school board member Richard Vladovic. Daily Breeze  LAUSD Loses Molestation Coverage in New Insurance Policies Facing multimillion dollar...

Here’s an eerily prescient tweet LA School Report contributor Hillel Aron sent out at the beginning of the June 18 Board meeting: Thanks to Barbara Jones’ LA Daily News story, we now know that indeed, Board members were in those very moments being informed of the accusations against Board member Vladovic. Previous posts: Harassment Allegations Could Hurt...

Antonio Villaraigosa Leaves His Mark on L.A. Schools The mayor vowed to turn the district into an incubator of education reform. In his two terms, during which his nonprofit took over more than a dozen campuses, he’s had mixed results. LA Times See also: NPR Popularity of Charter Schools Keeps Waitlists Long There are 6,000...

We’ll be posting new information about the fallout from the Vladovic allegations as soon as possible, but meantime you might want to read the LA Daily News piece that broke the news: “Los Angeles Unified has launched an investigation into allegations of employee intimidation and sexual harassment leveled against school board member Richard Vladovic, the...

LAUSD Board Member Richard Vladovic Accused of Harassing Employees Attorneys will also look into allegations of harassment voiced by several district staff members who were interviewed by attorneys as part of a sex-abuse investigation involving an elementary school in Vladovic’s South Bay district. LA Daily News  Coalition of Attorneys Demand Broad Policy Changes at LAUSD...

Budget Detail Shows Almost all Districts Returning to Prerecession Funding Levels Under terms of what’s being called a “compromise” on Brown’s Local Control Funding Formula, districts will receive an average of about $537 more per student than was proposed in May by the governor. SI&A Cabinet Report  LAUSD Launches Website to Explain Miramonte Sex-Abuse Settlement...

Study: Charter School Students Show Reading Gains over Public Schools The nation’s charter school students showed more academic gains in reading than their public school counterparts did according to a new study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University. The study showed no difference in math performance between the two groups....

LA School Report won 3rd place in the 55th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards, after being named a finalist in two categories (group blog, online-only website) in its first year of publication. In the online-only news outlet category (H13), Truthdig and California Healthline came in just ahead of us.  In group blog category (H12), the top...